MacGyver Mom Saves the Day After Teen Daughter's Prom Dress Rips 5 Minutes Before Photos (Exclusive)
In April, Allie Kampas and her parents were getting ready to take her younger sister, Lexie, to her prom photo location to meet her friends
But just five minutes before they were set to leave, the zipper on Lexie's dress completely split, leaving it wide open
Though Lexie was ready to rush to the mall for a new dress, her mom, Amy, 54, decided to try fixing it herselfAllie Kampas and her parents were getting ready to take her younger sister, Lexie, to her prom photo location to meet her friends. But just five minutes before they were set to leave, Lexie's boyfriend helped zip up her dress after filming a TikTok transition and the zipper completely split, leaving the dress wide open.
Panicking, the high school junior screamed, 'MOOOOMMMMM, SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED!'
Though Lexie was ready to rush to the mall for a new dress, her mom, Amy, 54, decided to try fixing it herself. After several failed attempts, Amy quickly realized that the traditional fix wasn't going to work.
At the time, the family, who lives in Orange County, Calif., was at their newly built house, which wasn't fully moved into and barely had supplies. But Amy wasn't deterred. She began scouring the house for anything that might help.
"I literally had to think fast about what I had access to in a house we don't even live in yet," Amy tells PEOPLE exclusively. "I learned how to sew at a young age, but I had nothing here. So I opened a bathroom drawer and thought, 'What do I have?' I saw dental floss and figured that could work."
"Then I needed something to feed it through, and I spotted bobby pins," Amy continues. "Then I needed to poke holes — so I grabbed the cuticle scissors. I started threading the floss with the bobby pins, poking holes along the broken zipper line. My daughter was panicking, ready to leave and find a new dress, but I just said, 'Nope, we're going to figure this out.' Stitch by stitch, the dress started coming back together, and Lexie calmed down. It took maybe five minutes, tops, and each stitch gave me more confidence.'
"Honestly, we were in a house we don't even live in full-time, so watching her open drawers and improvise was wild — but not surprising," Allie adds. "She always finds a way."
Throughout the whole dilemma, Allie captured the moment on camera. Later, she posted it to her TikTok account, thinking it was both hilarious and amazing.
Then, the video went viral, amassing more than 13.4 million views and 1,300 comments. The response was overwhelmingly positive.
'There's nothing a woman cannot do,' one user commented.
'I remember so many times saying, 'It's ok, my mom can fix it!' And that's the kind of mom I want to be,' another wrote.
Someone else said, "I just learned a serious life hack from your mother.'
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After the first video went viral, Allie took to her TikTok again to share a video of the finished product.
"When the video went viral, the family was thrilled to read all the positive and relatable comments," Allie says. "It felt extra special with Mother's Day coming up. My mom was especially glad that people saw the value of being resourceful and not giving up — something she's always taught us."
"We were overwhelmed in the best way," she adds. "So many people shared similar stories of their moms swooping in during a fashion crisis. It felt like a big, warm group hug from the Internet."
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